In his latest Waste Report revealing $50 billion in government boondoggles, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) exposes how the National Science Foundation (NSF) spent a significant portion of a nearly half-million dollar grant on studying frog mating calls. As Sen Paul writes in his report, “Panamanian frog mating calls may sound different in forests and cities,...
White Coat Waste Project’s (WCW) mission is to find, expose and defund taxpayer-funded animal testing, and journalists are critical to helping us hold the government accountable for this waste and abuse. Donovan Slack of USA Today and Scott Taylor of WJLA ABC 7 For its 2019 Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award, the National...
Congressman Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) wants to know why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has dramatically increased painful and wasteful taxpayer-funded tests on rabbits when, as he writes, other government researchers have stated, “animal models have limited relevance to humans and poorly predict effects in humans.” In a letter sent today to DHS, Rep....
This morning in the Washington Examiner, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and Pro-Life San Francisco (PLSF) exposed how tens of millions of tax dollars are being wasted on disturbing human fetal tissue experiments on animals opposed by most Americans. In their bipartisan op-ed, WCW board member Alyssa Canobbio Hackbarth–a Republican–and PLSF president Terrisa Bukovinac–a Democrat–describe...
Animals released from taxpayer-funded labs following WCW efforts (L-R): Violet was rescued from a lab by a WCW board member. Delilah was retired by the USDA when WCW shut down its kitten slaughterhouse. And this male squirrel monkeys is one of 26 who WCW got released from the FDA’s now-defunct nicotine lab. Over 1.2...
Following advocacy by over 1.2 million White Coat Waste Project supporters, the U.S. Senate is stepping up to protect survivors of wasteful government animal experiments! Senate bill could save many federal lab animals’ lives and give them a new homehttps://t.co/8M0zwo4VPU — TIME (@TIME) July 30, 2019 As reported by TIME, Washington Examiner, Associated Press, and...
When White Coat Waste Project shut down the USDA’s kitten slaughterhouse earlier this year, the agency committed to adopting out the 14 cats who remained in the shuttered lab. Now, some of the lucky survivors got to meet the lawmakers who helped win their freedom after years locked in a federal laboratory. Last week, as...
ABC7 investigative reporter Scott Taylor was instrumental in helping White Coat Waste Project expose and shut down the USDA’s kitten slaughterhouse. Now, he and Washington, DC’s ABC7 are helping spread the word about Violet’s Law (aka the AFTER Act), and why it’s needed to spare the lives of over 50,000 dogs, cats, primates, rabbits and...
Once again, White Coat Waste Project has busted taxpayer-funded monkey abusers for violating a long-standing federal law designed to inform Americans how the government is spending their money. NIH and MIT experimenters failed to disclose how much taxpayer money they spent to drill into monkeys’ heads and assess how their brains respond to musical sounds....
